Judge Holly Lodge Meyer, who is handling Hunter Biden’s child support case in Arkansas, issued an order Monday saying President Joe Biden’s son must appear on July 10 at the Independence County Courthouse in Batesville to explain “why he should not be held in contempt” after lawyers for Lunden Alexis Roberts, the mother of Hunter Biden’s child, argued that Hunter Biden was ignoring the judge’s May order to hand over information on his finances.
Hunter Biden had initially denied paternity and any memory of meeting the mother at the Mpire Club in the nation’s capital, but the judge said in January 2020 that the court “finds the results of the DNA tests indicate with near scientific certainty that the defendant is the biological father of the child in this case.” Hunter settled with Roberts for $2.5 million in 2020, but the case was later reopened, and the president’s son is engaged in an Arkansas court battle to lower his payments.
In December 2022, lawyers for Roberts filed to change the surname of her 4-year-old daughter to"Biden” and argued the Biden name is"now synonymous with being well educated, successful, financially acute, and politically powerful." Hunter Biden’s lawyers have sought to block his daughter from taking on the family's last name.
The judge ruled in May that Roberts and Joe Biden’s son will need to sit for depositions in June, when Hunter will need to answer detailed questions about his income. Kevin Morris, a close Hunter Biden confidante, appears to be the current owner of Skaneateles, an LLC started by the younger Biden which held Hunter’s 10% share in Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Company, or BHR. Representatives for Hunter Biden said last year that he had paid off a roughly $2 million past-due tax bill. He allegedly did so by taking out a massive loan from Morris, who has been helping with shaping his media narrative and his legal strategies.